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So I started out intending to make a 3 gallon batch of pomegranate wine. I feed it as such and continued to add more juice until it's finally going to end up being a 5 gallon batch. If I would have feed it from the start as a 5 gallon batch I would have ended up feeding it one more TBSP of Fermaid-O. I'm way past the halfway point and I don't know if I should feed it or not. I used 71-b. It has chewed up 92 points.
I have added 3 TBSP of Go-ferm. Had I knew I was going to make a 5 gallon batch from the start I would have figured to feed it 4 TBSP of Fermaid-O

It's pretty far into the fermentation and I don't know if I should feed it or not. Do any of you have any input?

It smells nice but I have had, at times, things turn a bit smelly at the near end of it's journey.
 
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Nice to see you back LOR. Congrats on your new home.

I decided to try a different protocol and only feed Fermaid-O

I read this and decided to try it http://www.meadmaderight.com/info.html

So I started at 1000 and I fed 1 TBSP at first sign of fermentation.

I feed a second TBSP 24 hours later and bumped it back up to 1100

My 1/3 was at 1067. I had planned to feed all of the food (4 TBSP) by then

I flew past that and my next check was down to 1054 So I feed it my third TBSP

It went down more but my notes got a drop of must on it so I can't read where that mark had went to.

I added more concentrate back up to 1028.

During all that I added more pom juice here and there. When I checked each new hydro meter I had added juice and/or sugar to get to that mark.

This is messiest log for sure. I thought I could remember better than I have been able to. I had notes in 2 different note books and on 1 piece of tape on my carboy after I had transferred the must from a bucket to the carboy. Both the tape and 1 page of notes got splashed on a bit as I have been keeping my temps around 64 by keeping my container in the tub full of water and the windows open at night.
 
So I'm not sure how to manage my math when I added more volume at different points along the way. So the best I could figure on this one was to just add up the point drops from the start and looked at it as that many points in a 5 gallon batch. My one measure that got blotted out is the missing point in the above. I think that's only another 14 points or so. So I'm thinking I have already eaten up 100 - 110 points. With that said, I should be very close to my little guys croaking. That's why I'm unsure if I should feed some or not.

This batch's brew log is a real sh** show.
 
I think Fermaid-O should be safe to add after the halfway point, if I recall correctly it's DAP that the yeast can't use past a certain point. If you weren't using Fermaid-O, I'd be suggesting adding some nuked bread yeast. Giving it some more Fermaid-O shouldn't hurt if you're worried about late-fermentation stinkies.
 
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